Motivational Quotes

Money

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Money

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

33.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert